I'm not that sort of writer where I can restrict myself to a theme, just in case nothing good comes of it. — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
Whenever I sat down to write something it was never anything I took lightly. It was something that I'd want you, somebody… — Rakim Copy Share Image
I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some writing programs are very much like, you come in, and you have a niche that becomes yours, and, you know, you're… — Jennifer Konner Copy Share Image
If you're trying to write about very strong horror, very strong fear or very strong emotion, it's easy to overwrite it. — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
“As always with the greatest works, the novel is so many-sided that over time it mirrors back the shifting concerns of those… — Carl F. Hovde Copy Share Image
The art and act of writing - speaking just for myself - involves getting your proverbial ass in the proverbial chair. — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
“What I had come to love about book club (besides the fabulous desserts and free liquor) was how in hearing so many… — Lorna Landvik Copy Share Image
I like every individual editor, designer, marketing and publicity person I deal with, but I don't like what publishers, corporately, are doing… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I'm not writing necessarily for an audience. I think about the audience at the end, once I have a complete book. But,… — Crystal Hana Kim Copy Share Image
I stand before you as a writer without any ground of being out of which to write: really blown about from country… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
I keep a journal. I like myself better when I just pour it out. It's easier sometimes, even if you write on… — Fergie Copy Share Image
“The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you've done as you value it. Not to expect… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I can't describe what I do, I just potter along. But I do like the notion of an essay, something that can… — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
When we talk about books, we rarely talk about the economic side of writing, especially of writing literary works, and that, at… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
The album cover of 'Death of a Bachelor' is me on my roof of my backyard, so that's my place where I… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Like a good American, I wanted to sue somebody. But like a good librarian, I just sat at my desk and waited.” — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
“Members of the Order take vows of literacy, obstinancy and bibliomancy. Bibliomancy? It's defined for us a little further down: "Divination by… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty. — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have only one bit of advice to the beginning writer: Be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
The story that I'm telling in 'Homecoming King' about falling in love, these are things that happened to me - that actually… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
Anybody who writes knows the horrible, wonderful, beautiful foulness that comes every week. A lot of moaning, screaming agony - "Oh my… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
LIFE is Like A Book, You All Read It. Love is A Blessing, You All Need It. Life is Too Short, Live… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
One of the most important elements of my identity is my identity as a reader. I love to read - really, if… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Writers have a reputation for being distracted. That's because writers are distracted. They are always tuned into that other voice, the one… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a means of, 'Here's an… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
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